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Mercy Cobb (Baker)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Barnstable, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, British Colonial America
Death: March 04, 1781 (76)
Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Nathaniel Baker and Mercy Baker
Wife of Sylvanus Cobb
Mother of Mercy Churchill; Corp. Ebenezer Cobb; Binney Cobb; Rebecca Cobb; Thankful Bates and 1 other
Sister of Benjamin Baker; Sarah Baker; Nathaniel Baker, Jr.; Nicholas Baker; Sarah Baker and 3 others

Managed by: Nancy D. Coon
Last Updated:

About Mercy Cobb

Marcy Baker Cobb
BIRTH 4 Feb 1707, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 4 Mar 1781 (aged 74), Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
BURIAL Cemetery at The Green, Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA, MEMORIAL ID 37291864, Photos by Sylvia Lyons

NOTE: Her birth certificate lists her as Mercy, the stone says Marcy. Her birthday is listed as Feb 1 and Feb 4.

1912 Shurtleff Genealogy ID 207

Inscription
In Memory of
Mrs Marcy Widow of
Mr Silvanus Cobb
Late of Barnstable
She Died March ye 4th
1781 in the 75th
Year of her Age

Parents
Nathaniel Baker, 1679–1750
Mercy Baker (Binney)

Spouse
Silvanus Cobb, 1700–1756 m. 11/7/1728 at Barnstable

Siblings
Nathaniel Baker, 1709–1791

Children
Mercy Cobb Churchill, 1729–1756
Ebenezer Cobb, 1731–1811
Sylvanus Jr. b 1734
Binney (Benney) Sr. 1736/7 – 1817
Rebekah Cobb, 1739–1756
Thankful Cobb Bates, 1743–1815
Lydia b 1745

References
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37291864/marcy-cobb

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Mercy Cobb's Timeline

1705
February 4, 1705
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Province of Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1729
October 13, 1729
1731
August 24, 1731
Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1736
January 23, 1736
1739
April 2, 1739
1743
September 25, 1743
Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
1746
1746
1781
March 4, 1781
Age 76
Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States
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Cemetery at the Green, Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States